The shop is, of course a hit amongst the ninja (Civilians being much more supersticious, avoided her shop as much as possible).
Especially the ones that were boggled by her arrival.
In a way, the scuffle that broke out in the Hokage office was excellent advertising. It didn't even cos her any magic or money to do.
The popularity was something of a learning experience for everyone involved.
Mina had always taken her magic for granted. She had grown up with it and all of her skills utilized it. She had only intended to open a potions and candy shop. The former being amongst her best subjects (Good thing the seeds she bought are growing well. It's slow going but damn it she has no intentions of losing a skill her mother had taught to her. Or any thing she has learned from her friends and family. It's the only way she can think of to honor her loved ones.)
When people started coming to her for various charms it took her by surprise. She never expected to use her charms for more then repairs and cleaning (And perhaps making candy).
But after some time she could see the use of her charms in the world of muggles (She isn't quite sure if she should really call them that. They could clearly use magic, even if their magic is different from her own. She chooses to believe that their magic is like that of house elves, goblins and other magical creatures, familiar but foreign at the same time and unreachable for her.)
The undetectable extension charms were the most popular even when she told them that the charm wore off after a few years. She had a feeling they didn't believe her, but if they suddenly discovered that their belongings were suddenly spilling out of her bag when they shouldn't fit it would not be her fault. She made them sign a contract for that. She didn't have the power to make the charm permanent just yet and she made sure that they knew it. She also made them sign a contract so she wouldn't get accused of fraud.
(Hiruzen is grateful that the witch doesn't seem to notice her apparent power. Despite the strange and uncertain situation the girl (She was a civilian. Even if she has seen war she is still civilian and thus still a child in their eyes.) has found herself in, she has held her own and planted herself amongst them like a weed.
He hopes she doesn't realize her own potential for destruction until they find a way to tie her to the village. He tells his ninja to humor the witch regarding her requests as long as they weren't harmful. If she wanted to make more paperwork for herself that was her prerogative. Their looks of dismay when they see the work load for becoming a magus broke up the monotony of beauocracy quite nicely. He now understands why she laughed when he did it.
He knows that his council will no doubt try to pressure her to train other shinobi in the ways of magic. They will push for her to start a family once they find out that it is partially genetic. The allure of magic was even more powerful in real life then in children's stories and he knows that nothing good will come of it if the girl were to break.)
The second most popular happened to be Impervious.
The blond one who legilimensed her had asked how she managed to stay clean in her many scuffles with death eaters and treks through the wilds. She had explained that she simply impervioused her things.
Evidently that was not the right thing to say as she was promptly given a pile of clothes to charm. There was a mild disagreement regarding her payment (What? She was proud of the skills her family had taught her and she wasn't going to work for free, even under duress! One of her uncles taught her that before he was killed by that Damned Rodolphus Lestrange.) before she charmed them to be dirt proof, weather proof (Why anyone would wear a dress in the rain was beyond her.) and blood proof (Ugh. Perhaps these were closer to goblins then she initially thought. They were clearly warriors if they requested something to be blood proof.)
She made them knife proof too since doubted that they were the only mercenaries in this world. But that was more trouble then it was worth since it repelled their own weapons too.
She did however decide to ward the inside of her store to repel throwing kunai once she figured out what they did.
Since then she was visited regularly by people who wanted their clothes charmed. Especially by the people with white eyes.
She wonders if they had some sort of color blindness since they all wore rather light colored clothes. Perhaps that was a familial preference like the Houses back in Britain.
It would be rude to ask, so she didn't.
Then again perhaps she should since they all stared at her like she was some sort of ghost. None of them would answer her greetings nor would they approach her.
(Because how can something be alive with out chakra? How can a teenage girl do the things she can with out chakra? The Hokage had deemed her safe but the presence of the store would give the older Hyuuga many nightmares until she saves one of them entirely by accident. The youngest generation oddly enough didn't have a problem with the witch's strange ways.)
Mina's first customer came in about two hours after she opens.
It's a teenage girl with purple hair. Purple hair! Now she knew that Chakra was the dominant force in this region so the girl's hair must've been natural.
The teenager walks around the store looking in wonder until she sees her watching. "What are you staring at!" She grits.
Mina blinked and blushed. She hadn't to stare like that. How rude of her to make such a poor first impression. "Ah. Sorry. I not from here." She waves nervously. "Where I from there no Purple hair."
The two girls stare awkwardly for a few moments before Mina bows. "I Mina Ollivander... er.. I mean I Orimanda Mina. Welcome to Flying Blackbird. Need help?"
The girl seemed relieved that something she had said because she nods back. "I'm Mitarashi Anko. I saw this place on the way home. Seems pretty cool." Then she points to the shelf of Chocolate frogs looking a little grossed out. "Are those real frogs?"
"No. They chocolate charmed to move like frog."
Anko nodded skeptically and went back to browsing the candy rack. "Hey what flavors do these jelly beans come in?"
Mina craned her neck to see what she was pointing at. " Ah. Those not jam beans. They every flavor beans. They come in every flavor. Few flavors are coffee, cherry, orange, apple, beef, garlic, pineapple, dango, grass, soap, boot, and strawberry."
Anko stared at the awkwardly shifting shopkeeper as she tried to process the list in her head. "Beef flavored?"
"Yes. I wrote guide for beginners." Perhaps the every flavor beans were a bit much for a town first being exposed to magic. "But if too much for you. You can try pepper imp. I have sample here." She gestures to a tray with little black candies in it.
"So you bought this from a shop that mysteriously appeared?" Asked a certain senbon chewing ninja as he inspected a purple jelly bean.
"Yep. The one I ate was bacon flavored." Replied Anko. She was still trying to get the awful taste of candy textured meat out of her mouth with copious amounts of sake. "Apparently they come in every flavor imaginable. Now eat it. I wanna know what you got."
Genma glanced at the others who were also inspecting the beans. There's only one person who could set up a shop in under three days and the hokage had confirmed her to be mostly harmless. She certainly had the power to do much harm but she sometimes seemed to have her head in the clouds. Oh well, no sense in delaying.
He popped the jelly bean in his mouth. "Huh, grapes."
They weren't bad actually. So he takes another bean from the candy dish, green this time, and eats it.
He spits it back out almost instantly. "Sprouts" He coughs. "Why the hell would anyone want to eat sprout flavored beans?! That's nasty."
"You got sprouts? I got mint." Called Aoba "Man, these jelly beans are nuts. Hey Kurenai, what did you get?"
"I got cherry the first time. Strawberry the second. Looks like the red ones are safe." She absentmindedly chewed a third red jelly bean for a few moments before she stilled. Her face slowly began turning redder and redder until she spat out the candy in a napkin. "Nevermind! That was Pepper!" She coughed and wiped her tearing eyes. "Where did you get these?"
"That New purple shop. The Flying Blackbird. I bought some stuff that lets ya smoke from the ears too. I'm gonna prank Ibiki with them." Replied Anko who was cautiously looking at a brown colored bean and ignoring the stares from the other ninja. "Owner looks like she's either a foreigner or has a really bad speech impediment."
Genma nodded in understanding. "Ah You must be talking about Mina. Boy, she works fast. I'll have to pay her a visit sometime."
"First name basis already? She ain't the only one who works fast." Sniggered the snake woman. "Seriously. What is up with that shop. The construction of that shop should have taken at least a year. There is no way something like that could've appeared when i was out on a mission not with out magic or something."
"That's the thing. Mina actually IS a witch. I was part of the Hokage's guard when she showed up. I watched her wave her stick and the whole store just built itself." He rubbed his head at the memory. "Said it was a basic spell too. As for the name thing, she just got sick of listening to people butcher it. Seriously, if you address her by her family name she'll slap you." The woman's slaps didn't much force behind them but they hurt none the less. Especially when her hands met his ears. He winces at the memory and rubs his ear. It reminded him of the times his father would box his ears for stupidity.
"Wasn't there some incident a few days ago in T&I?"
"Yeah, that would the Mina-san. She didn't like us going through her things and strung us all up by our ankles."
"So we have a witch in Konoha. Lemon." Someone else asked
"Yep."
"A witch from those old stories?"
"Yep"
"The hokage knows this?"
"Yep"
"Huh. Cool. We have a witch." Shrugged Anko as she popped the brown bean in her mouth. "Chocolate."
"Did she have any of those freaky paintings in her shop?" Asked Aoba. "From what I heard only one of them spoke our language and cussed out the people handling it. First for harrassing the daughter, then for dropping the frame. Total head trip there."
"She only had a duffelbag and a back pack? How much stuff could she possibly have?" Questioned Genma. He takes his senbon and pulls a white jelly bean from his mouth (It was soap flavored.)
Aoba gives him a deadpan stare and begins counting off his fingers. "I pulled out half a dozen talking paintings (Judging from their expressions, Aoba was fairly certain they were berating him in their language. Except for the one of an elderly lady in an expensive looking Kimono. That one cussed him out in their own language and accused them of being grave robbers.), a radio (What the hell was it playing? How did it run with out batteries?), a clump of metal that opened up into a giant pot (It weighed a ton and had some sort of residue that made their fingers swell to unbelievable sizes.), a set of scales, a bundle of wands (He isn't ashamed to admit that he wanted to wave one around to see if anything would happen), an expensive looking broomstick that would float away when left unattended for too long (He suspected that it was for flying.)"
At this point he stops and takes a long drink of sake before continuing his overly long list. "A telescope which gave someone a black eye (Uchiha Satoshi plays off his black eye as a result from a spar. The story of a punching teloscope being too ludicrous to be believed), Six different pairs of shoes, scaled gloves, what looked like a huge stack of textbooks(He couldn't read it but he knows that the contents would be interesting.), and a box packed with strange clothes. Oh, and a wallet with teeth that bit me when I tried to take a look at what was inside it."
He waves his heavily bandaged hand for emphasis.
"I didn't get to see what was inside the other bag but it looked like a bunch of food and drinks tossed with various kinds of crafting material. Everything was a jumbled mess and it took forever to sort everything out." The implication being that the witch had carefully packed the first bag for a long journey and the second one was filled with what ever she could get her hands on, an after thought.
All of them wondered what would come from the shop aside from strange candies.
In time the Flying Blackbird would become famous
They would be renowned for their products.
The shop would eventually be known for their mind boggling wares. Objects that everyone, from the daimyo to the farmers could use and find appealing.
In the shinobi world, the shop would also become famous for crazy missions. Especially the ones involving the strange plants in the back of the store (Because loose bouncing bulbs were a head ache and a half for everyone involved).
Since the store was so popular politics got dragged into it, reaffirming that politics were a pain in the arse for everyone involved.
And also reminding them that the shop keeper wasn't too bad at politics herself. (Politics were a part of life for buisnessman. Her entire family was very influential in the ministry of magic even if they didn't like to show it. There was a reason that nobody gave them trouble when they married muggles or squibs.)
AN:
Dialogue is more awkward to write in this style. I'm not really sure why.
Is there an official term for the witches and wizards? I'm inclined to think it's Magus because they have the term Animagus. Which would refer to the percentage that can turn into animals.
There is also metamorphmagus which would refer to the portion that can shape change.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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